Harsh V Chopra

Co-Founder

Gurgaon, Haryana, India30 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 1,000 CEOs engaged across 10 cities.
  • Expert in family business governance and succession.
  • Delivered impactful knowledge sessions on leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Family Business Consultant with extensive experience in governance and leadership development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Family Business AdvisoryGovernanceThought Leadership

Other Skills

Family CharterSuccession PlanningConflict ResolutionCoachingMentoringFacilitationCommunicationPublic SpeakingNetworkingLeadershipManufacturingManagement ConsultingStrategic PlanningStart-upsChemicals

About

Family Business Advisor & Coach , Family Charter, Succession, Governance As a trusted advisor to business families for over 12 years, I help them strengthen the invisible threads that hold the enterprise together — trust, communication, clarity, and shared purpose. Coach & Sounding Board I work with founders as a trusted thinking partner to help them crystallise their thinking and navigate periods of uncertainty and transition. Family businesses often face complexity arising from emotions, relationships, unequal capabilities within the family, ownership dilemmas. I help founders clear the fog and navigate sensitive issues with clarity What we do Drafting Family Charters & Constitutions Coaching & Mentoring Founders Annual Family Business Off – Site Retreats: Designed to step back, pause, review how the family is working together. And share best practices of successful family businesses. Next-Gen Induction & Succession Conflict Resolution: We facilitate honest, constructive conversations—helping families address sensitive issues in a safe, private setting. Thought Leadership • My insights have been featured in Economic Times, HT, Mint, TV9 and CNBC Our Approach Every engagement begins with listening — understanding what matters most to the family. Discreet & Empathetic. Experience You Can Trust: Country Manager, Intertek based at Delhi responsible for the integration of all divisions. ( 2.5 years ) Managing Director, Ray-Ban Sun Optics India (Luxottica Group) – Post the acquisition by Luxottica, led the launch of luxury and fashion eyewear brands in India, including Bulgari, Chanel, Prada, Ferragamo, and Versace, alongside core brands like Ray-Ban and Vogue. ( 8 years ) VP Operations, Bausch & Lomb : Responsible for the supply chain including manufacturing facility of Contact Lens & Ray-Ban Sunglasses. ( 5 years ) 15 Years at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) – Joined as a Management Trainee from campus, progressing through manufacturing roles on the shop floor ( Lifebuoy, Lux , Rexona, Sunsilk, Clinic ), commissioned the export factory at Kandla and thereafter general management roles — and Plant Manager of Asia’s largest high-pressure fat-splitting soap facility. • Over 1,000 CEOs engaged across 10 cities, in partnership with leading banks. • Chemical Engineer, BHU IIT Based in Gurgaon, I bring a blend of global corporate experience and genuine empathy to every family I work with. If you’re looking for a trusted partner to help your family business let’s connect. Sometimes, just a conversation can open doors.

Experience

Partners 4 growth

Family Business Advisor & Coach, Founder, Partners 4 Growth

Jan 2014Present · 12 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Founder, Partners 4 Growth
  • As an experienced Family Business Advisor and Coach, I specialize in guiding family-owned enterprises. I help craft frameworks and governance structures - a Family Constitution or Family Charter - that foster alignment and harmony within families, ensuring their legacies thrive for generations to come. My expertise encompasses next-generation induction, succession planning, conflict resolution, and professionalization of family businesses.
  • Also run a program for founders on “Leading & Transforming Family Businesses”.
  • Delivered knowledge sessions to more than 1000 CEOs across 10 cities in India and USA in partnership with leading private banks.
  • We work as trusted advisors to founders of family managed businesses.
  • What we do :
  • We conduct sleeves rolled up off-site Family Retreat designed to clear the air, open up channels of communication, build a climate of transparency, trust and respect and find consensus on the way forward. This is done by diagnosing the crossed wires, sharing best practices of successful business families and co-creating the framework of a Family Charter. A transformational experience which brings families closer and aligns their thinking
  • Articles & interviews on Leadership & Organisational transformation - ET,Business Standard, Business World, Mint, HT, CNBC.
  • Host a CEO Knowledge Forum in partnership with ICICI Bank in Delhi & Mumbai.
  • http://www.partners4growth.in/
Family CharterSuccession PlanningConflict ResolutionCoachingMentoringFamily Business Advisory+1

Encell technology,inc.

President Asia Pacific

Apr 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Encell Technology has developed a family of green and safe products uniquely suited to the requirements of several rapidly growing market segments, including wireless communications, cloud computing, mobile technology, automotive, healthcare and alternative energy. Our innovations include patents for battery designs and chemistry and enable a complete approach to efficient and renewable power storage that no other available system provides.

Adizes institute

Founding Partner & Country Manager, India

Nov 2010Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Gurgaon

  • Adizes Institute is a management consulting organisation which serves entrepreneurs and family managed businesses from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in diverse industries. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA with offices in 15 countries it is led by an Institute which performs research, licensing and training in proprietary Adizes Methodology. The non profit Adizes Graduate School offers Masters and Doctoral degrees in organisational transformation.
  • Adizes Institute has concluded from its work with thousands of entrepreneurs and family run businesses worldwide that growing companies in a rapidly changing environment lack the knowledge and experience to manage their growth. Some age prematurely. Many are unable to extricate themselves from the Founder's Trap.

Intertek

Country Manager - India

May 2008Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Intertek India is a 100% owned subsidiary of Intertek plc and is in the business of inspection, testing and certification with 1200 employees and 30 locations in India.
  • My direct responsibilities were : accelerating growth both organic and through acquisitions, building shared service departments across all divisions and driving the Intertek-as-One programme.

Rayban sun optics india ltd.

Managing Director

Oct 2000Apr 2008 · 7 yrs 6 mos

  • Distribution of Luxury Brands for Eyewear ( Bulgari, Chanel, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana ), Fashion Brands ( Ferragamo, Versace, D&G ) and core brands ( RayBan, Vogue, Arnette ) across multiple channels in India. Parent Luxottica Group is a global market leader in Optical retail and Wholesale in premium branded eyewear with vertically integrated operations including design, manufacture at 6 plants in North Italy, 2 in China and 1 in India and distribution across 120 countries. Market leader in India with a 4 fold stock price increase between 2000 and now.

Bausch & lomb india

VP Operations

Jan 1995Jan 2000 · 5 yrs · Gurgaon

  • Supply Chain restructuring.
  • Member of the Global Operations Team Visioncare, Rochester, NY, with shared responsibility for intercompany transfer of best practises.

Hindustan unilever limited

Senior Manager

Jan 1978Jan 1995 · 17 yrs

  • Starting as a Management Trainee recruited from campus started work life on the shop floor as a manufacturing manager across diverse technologies - soaps & detergents, personal products, garments, edible oils, herbicides, Commissioned Personal Products plant in Kandla and later plant manager of asia's biggest high pressure fat splitting soap factory before moving to cross functional general management roles in development, new product launches and TOMCO integration post acquisition.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, BHU

B Tech — Chemical Engineering

Jan 1973Jan 1978

St.Joseph's college

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